WILLIAM RUSSELL PAYNE

 

Philosophy Instructor

Bellevue Community College

3000 Landerholm Cir. SE

Bellevue WA, 98007

wpayne@bcc.ctc.edu

http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/wpayne/

(425) 564-4129

 

 

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 2003

          Dissertation:  "On the Nature of Dispositions"

 

Arizona State University

  • MA, Philosophy, 1993

        Master's Thesis: "Coherence Theories of Meaning"

  • BA, Major in Philosophy, Minor in Japanese, 1991

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Metaphysics and Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Science

 

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Critical Thinking
  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Eastern Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Ethics
  • Applied Ethics
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Business Ethics

 

TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Bellevue Community College

Instructor, starting Winter Quarter, 2000 and continuing.  Courses taught:

  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Foundations of Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Philosophical Issues in Technology
  • History of Philosophy
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Applied Ethics
  • Business Ethics
  • Biomedical Ethics

 

California State University

  • Instructor, Spring Semester, 1999: Critical Thinking

       

Consumnes River College

  • Instructor, Spring Semester, 1999: Critical Thinking and Composition

 

Sacramento City College

  • Instructor, Spring Semester, 1999: World Religions

 

University of California, Davis

  • Instructor, UCD, 1994: Introduction to Philosophy
  • Instructor, UCD, 1996: Theory of Knowledge
  • Teaching assistant in Philosophy, 1994 through 1997. 

Assisted in a broad range of courses including Introduction to Philosophy, Personhood, Logic, Philosophy of Biology, and Philosophy of Science.

 

Arizona State University

§         Teaching assistant in Philosophy, 1992 through 1994. 

Assisted in courses including Applied Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, and Logic.

 

Research

Papers

 
  • "What a Law of Nature is." Delivered at the 2006 Pacific Division APA meeting, March 24, Portland Oregon.
  • "What a Law of Nature is." Delivered as a colloquium for the University of Washington Philosophy Department, December 3, 2005.
  • "What a Law of Nature is." Delivered at the 2005 Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Seattle University.
  • "What a Law of Nature is." Delivered as a colloquium for the Washington State University/University of Idaho philosophy program.
  • "Towards a Property Theoretic Account of Counterfactuals." Delivered at the 2004 Eastern Division APA meeting in December 2004.
  • “Some Good and some not so Good Arguments for Dispositional Essentialism.” Delivered at the 2004 Pacific Division APA meeting, March 2004, Pasadena CA.
  • “Diversity and the Socratic Method.” Delivered at the 51st Annual Far Western Philosophy of Education Society Conference, January 16, 2004.
  • “John Rawls view of Social Justice as Fairness." Delivered at the conference on Teaching Social and Environmental Justice at Seattle University, May 16, 2003
  • “Supporting Counterfactuals with Properties.” Delivered at the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Causation and Explanation, May 4, 2003.
  • "On Singularism." Delivered at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Nov. 2000.

Commentary

  • Commentary on Helen Frowe's "Defending the Moral Distinction between Killing and Letting Die." 2006 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference.
  • Commentary on Heather Battaly's "Must Intellectual Virtues be Reliable." 2004 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

 

Professional Activities

Conference Organizer

·        Organizer of the 56th annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, to be held on October 8 and 9, 2004 at Bellevue Community College

 

Presentations

  • "Time for Fun", a talk on time travel and the philosophy of time for the Bellevue Community College Philosophy Club, May 18, 2005.    
  • "King on Non-Violence", a talk on Martin Luther King's non-violent philosophy for Black History Month, sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Philosophy Club at Bellevue Community College.               
  • Panelist for Bellevue Community College professional development day session, “Teaching the Courageous,” October 10, 2003.
  • “How to be an Environmentalist without having a Holy Cow”

A talk given for the Bellevue Community College Philosophy Club, April 28, 2003

  • "Teaching Writing Skills for Philosophy”

        A presentation to the faculty and graduate students of the UC Davis Dept. of Philosophy on effective techniques for teaching analytic writing skills, 1996

 

Workshops

  • Participant in “Courageous Conversations,” a two day workshop on race and cultural diversity sponsored by the Bellevue Community College Diversity Caucus, February 20-21, 2004

 

Committee Service

·        Graduate representative to the UCD Philosophy Dept. faculty, 1995-1996.

 

Curriculum work

·        Course proposal for "Philosophical Issues in Environmental Studies" submitted the curriculum committee at Bellevue Community College and approved, January 2003.